#ok

The real war will never get in the books. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#get #never #real #real war #war

The violets in the mountains have broken the rocks. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#broken #mountains #rocks #violets

No two persons ever read the same book. ↗

— Edmund Wilson

#ever #persons #read #same #two

I was into comic books as a kid. ↗

— Len Wiseman

#comic #comic books #i #into #kid

A word can change a mind, a sentence can change a life and a book can change the world. ↗

— Tom Kane

#horror #paranormal #change

It took them only an instant to cut of that head, but it is unlikely that a hundred years will suffice to reproduce a singular one. ↗

— Antoine Lavoisier

#head #hundred #instant #only #reproduce

One candle is like a smile. One little light can start a whole fire. Smile at someone today. ↗

— Gail Thackray

#inspirational #inspirational-quotes #positive-outlook #smile #inspirational

I doubt I'll ever do another book collaboration; I've been spoiled. Roger and I both happened to move to New Mexico at about the same time, when we each had a family of young kids to raise. Socializing seemed to lead naturally to working together. ↗

— Fred Saberhagen

#another #been #book #both #collaboration

...a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that helps us to make a painful rite of passage from one phase of life, one state of mind, to another. A novel, like a myth, teaches us to see the world differently; it shows us how to look into our own hearts and to see our world from a perspective that goes beyond our own self-interest. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#myth #novels #reading-books #art

I suppose that's the secret. If you're ever wishing for things to go back to the way they were, you just have to look up. ↗

— Lauren Oliver "Before I Fall"

#look-up #past #inspirational